Archaeology/Archeologie

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What is Archaeology?

Archaeology is the study of material things. Material stuff. People’s old stuff. The physical remains of human beings and of the physical world. That is, in archaeology you only see the material things of humans, for example: houses, cities, palaces, pots, etc. In archaeology you DO NOT see the spiritual world, except what man’s interpretation of it is. For example, an old temple, is actually man’s interpretation of the spiritual world in that time, and then excavated by archaeologists who interpret it with the knowledge they have in their time. It is an interpretation of an interpretation. Therefore archaeology is also interpreting something of the past with the knowledge of the present.

In archaeology we do not see the spiritual world. We interpret the physical world. Archaeology gives knowledge about what man did, and sometimes what he thought, what he built and how he lived. It is, however, only a partial interpretation. For it does not show what happened in the “invisible realm”. But what if there is a different present? What if we have a different reality? Than our interpretations of the past will also be different. Then we might just be able to see a different story. What if instead of just the material world there is also a spiritual world? What is the history of that “invisible” world? How did it influence us humans? Can we see that in archaeology? Can we see what happened in the spiritual world?

We are influenced by how we interpret the past by our understanding of the present. The spiritual world is difficult to understand, because we do not see it. But to make correct interpretations of the past, it is important to understand that there is an invisible world and in it there are two sides: dark and light. They are not in “balance” like some religions teach. They are at war. We see the result of that war in the physical world in many places. Therefore some history can often be different than people thought we had.